Planets
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, and more
Earth Cycles
Gravity
Misc.
100
This Planet is known as The Red Planet because of the amount of iron oxide in its crust
What is Mars
100
A ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun
What is a comet?
100
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate around its axis, causing day and night.
What is rotation?
100
This is the definition of gravity
What is a pull between two objects?
100
This is often described as the sun and everything that orbits the sun
What is a solar system?
200
This Planet is the smallest planet of them all in our solar system
What is Mercury?
200
Made of metal and rock that orbits the sun
What is an asteroid or a meteoroid?
200
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to make one trip around the sun, causing the year on a planet
What is revolution?
200
The reason why planets go around or revolve around the sun
What is the gravitational pull of the sun?
200
Our sun is a ________________ size star, there are other stars that are much larger, but they are much _______________________ away than our sun and that is why they look so ___________.
What is medium, farther, small?
300
This planet is the hottest planet in our solar system because of the clouds it has that traps and keeps in heat
What is Venus
300
Often referred to as a shooting star even though it is a rock burning up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere
What is a meteor?
300
This is what causes the seasons on Earth
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis (23.5')
300
Bigger things or more massive things have ______________ gravitational pull
What is greater or stronger
300
Pluto is considered a dwarf planet because of this
What is there are too many objects in its neighborhood or orbit? Or it can't clear its neighborhood of objects?
400
This is the first and second largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter and Saturn?
400
A meteor when it lands on the ground
What is a meteorite?
400
The amount of time it takes for the moon to make one revolution or trip around the earth
What is about 30 days?
400
Things that are farther away have a ___________________ gravitational pull
What is weaker or less?
400
Name the Planets in order of their distance from the sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
500
These two planets do not have any moons
What is Mercury and Venus?
500
A smaller chunk of an asteroid, made of metal and rock that orbits the sun
What is a meteoroid?
500
This is what causes the length of year on a planet and this is what causes the length of day on a planet
What is revolution and rotation?
500
This is technically why the planets orbit or revolve around the sun (two things working together)
What is gravitational pull of the sun and inertia?
500
Describe the differences between the inner and outer planets and give the names of the inner and outer planets
What is the inner planets are small, warmer, no rings, made of rock (terrestrial), the outer planets are large, colder, gas giants, all have rings, inner- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars outer- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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